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Edit Request From Mad Bunny, 8 Jan 2010
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The sentence "Amnesty International allowed a vote on a nonbinding resolution to the UN to promote the abolition of the death penalty." is gibberish. The article linked in the sentence makes no reference to Amnesty International being involved with the resolution, so the reference to Amnesty International should be removed.
It is unclear why the sentence "Amnesty International considers it to be "the ultimate denial of Human Rights"." is relevant to the article. This is a philosophical statement by a non-governmental organization and not relevant to an objective definition of the subject. That sentence should be removed.
Misinterpretation of Data
Hello all,
As I was reading this article, the information presented might have been misinterpreted.
"Venezuela followed suit and abolished the death penalty in 1854"
This seems to be not true, since other sources have listed the abolished date as 1863, such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Venezuela#cite_ref-1
The retrieved text from http://countrystudies.us/venezuela/5.htm
states as following:
"The abolition of slavery in 1854 was the only noteworthy act by the Monagas brothers"
It is the abolition of slavery, not the abolition of the death penalty.
§Barry Y. Wu
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Most recent state to ban capital punishmebt is Nebraska, not Maryland. 66.87.77.3 (talk) 03:39, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
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The lede contains the following paragraph:
- Nearly all countries in the world prohibit the execution of individuals who were under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes; since 2009, only Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Pakistan have carried out such executions. Executions of this kind are prohibited under international law.
As "international law" is unclear in this context (is it prohibited by a treaty? the UN Charter? customary IL? jus cogens?), I propose a modification to the following, as per the sources cited:
- Nearly all countries in the world prohibit the execution of individuals who were under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes; since 2009, only Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Pakistan have carried out such executions. Executions of this kind are prohibited under international law by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which all UN member states are parties except for the United States. Despite its failure to ratify the Convention, such executions have not been carried out in the United States since 2005, when they were held unconstitutional.[1][2][3].
- ^ US Supreme Court: Roper v. Simmons, No. 03-633: 1 March 2005
- ^ Human Rights Watch | Defending Human Rights Worldwide
- ^ U.S.: Supreme Court Ends Child Executions (Human Rights Watch, 1 March 2005)
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